A project to develop effective assessment methods, tools and staff development processes that can be used to assess Māori health competencies in clinical settings.
Cultural competence assessment is relevant to many vocational training programmes. While this project focused on clinical assessment of Hauora Māori in medical students, findings are likely to be very relevant to the assessment of cultural competence and equity in other forms of workplace training.
Download the report:
Report | Assessing Hauora Māori in Medical Students in Clinical Settings (PDF, 3.5Mb)
Summary report | Assessing Hauora Māori in Clinical Settings with Medical Students – Ideas for Implementing Change (PDF, 400Kb)
Background:
It is important that health professional education programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand
contribute to improving Māori health and promote reduction and elimination of health inequities.
This University of Auckland project, completed in 2013, aimed to develop effective assessment methods that can be used to assess Māori health competencies in clinical settings.
Reports prepared by Rhys Jones, Phillippa Poole, Mark Barrow, Papaarangi Reid, Sue Crengle, Jamie Hosking and Boaz Shulruf.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)